Frank Jay Haynes

Biography: 19th Century photographer Frank Jay Haynes

Biography: 19th Century photographer Frank Jay Haynes

Frank Jay Haynes (1853 – 1921), known as F. Jay, was a professional photographer who played a major role in documenting through photographs the settlement and early history of the great Northwest. Shortly after his move to Moorhead, Minnesota in 1876 F. Jay began doing photographic work for elements of the Northern Pacific Railway as the railway expanded operations west.…